Wayne Gilchrest

the Boehlert amendment ensures that repairs that were broken take place in the levee system; but No. 2, if the levees are maintained--and this is what I want to do in my study--if the levees are maintained and cut the grass and deal with…

Mr. Chairman, I think everybody in the Chamber this afternoon wants to resolve a problem that has persisted in this Nation for decades, and that is the problem of poverty, particularly the problem of poverty in public housing. Someone…

in the landmark case of McCulloch versus Maryland, America's first judicial giant, John Marshall, wrote that the power to tax is the power to destroy. To be sure, in that instance Justice Marshall was seeking to prevent my home State of…

I would like to strongly emphasize that all of us in this Chamber take the responsibility to listen to this debate, to come to some resolution. We are missing the mark, and I think to a large extent overpoliticizing this statement about…

The Speaker has created a situation on the House floor where each Member of Congress can become a responsible advocate for his or her position. My first 4 years here, I saw money and seniority as the influencing factor in developing…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 4133 is a bill which would designate the United States Courthouse in Cleveland, Ohio as the Carl B. Stokes United States Courthouse. In 1962, Carl Stokes began a life devoted to public service upon his election to the…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 4042 is a bill which would designate the United States Courthouse in New York City as the Ted Weiss United States Courthouse. Ted Weiss was born in Gava, Hungary in September 1927. He and his family fled Eastern Europe to…

Mr. Speaker, S. 1931 is a bill which would designate the United States Post Office and Courthouse in Cookeville, TN as the L. Clure Morton United States Post Office and Courthouse. Judge Morton was appointed to the U.S. District Court by…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 4119 is a bill which would designate the U.S. courthouse in Macon, GA as the William Augustus Bootle Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse. He was appointed to the U.S. district court by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on…

Mr. Speaker, I think this has been a very positive exercise for this body, the House of Representatives, to go through and understand the nature and importance of the marine ecosystems, the world's oceans and especially the coastal waters…

I rise in support of H.R. 3535, a bill designating the Federal building in Suitland, MD, as the W. Edwards Deming Federal Building. Dr. William Edwards Deming was a renowned expert on business management. He began his public service career…

I rise in support of S. 1995, a bill to authorize construction of the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum Dulles Center at Washington Dulles International Airport. This bill authorizes the Board of Regents of the…

S. 1636 is an act to designate the U.S. courthouse under construction in Portland, OR. as the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse. This designation is a fitting tribute to the senior Senator from the State of Oregon, who is retiring…

the bill designates the Federal building located at 290 Broadway in New York City as the Ronald H. Brown Federal Building. Ronald H. Brown was the first African-American Secretary of Commerce where he was influential in promoting U.S…

the bill designates the U.S. courthouse located at 611 North Florida Avenue, Tampa, FL, as the Sam M. Gibbons U.S. courthouse. Sam Gibbons has been a distinguished Member of this body for 34 years and will be retiring after he finishes his…

Mr. Chairman, if we could just look at this photograph over here for a second, what I want to try to display to my colleagues is the present condition of the marine ecosystem under the present law. When we talk about bycatch, that means…

I want to say that we were pressured into this legislation by the marine ecosystem that needs our help in managing those scarce resources. The ancient Polynesians had values that we should reflect today. The world is much different today…

What I want to explain though, just another point, existing law, 10,000-40,000 dolphins are killed that are not observed. Many likely are killed in the process of catching tuna fish that are sold in the United States because we do not…

Basically, encirclement the way we did it in the past was bad. We had an embargo, we ended it, we reduced the dolphin kills from 100,000 a year down to under 4,000 a year. That is what we are trying to do here. Log sets. Tuna, for some…

in response to the assertion of the gentleman from Massachusetts, let me respond to the study that was done on stress by Dr. Elizabeth Edwards of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This is what she said about the study…

The whole reason for this particular legislation is threefold: to reduce the number of dolphins killed, to reduce the number of marine species that are killed in the process of catching tuna, and to set up an agreement that we are…

I understand the nature of the difference between the way in which tuna and dolphins act in the eastern tropical Pacific. We have reduced the dolphin kill in the eastern tropical Pacific to a little over 3000. We have not reduced the kill…

What I would like to explain to the Members that will be voting here in the next hour or so is that we have a piece of legislation that has been put together in the light of day by numerous interested parties, by the fishermen who want to…

I would like to ask the body this question: Are there any areas in their districts that are depressed? Is there any section of their district that they would consider in poverty; in need of jobs? If the answer is ``yes,'' then I would like…

I do not think there is one person in this Congress that would say the welfare system is working. It has perpetuated the paralysis of poverty far too long. But at least we as a Congress want to move forward to make a fair assessment, to…